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Christian dualism has so exaggerated the difference between God and the world that it cannot really show how the two form a unity.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
Here was a human being so filled with and tuned to what they called the Spirit of God that they realized that to know him was to know God.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
to ask whether “salvation” is a matter of either grace or good works is pretty much like asking whether a coin is to be identified by either heads or tails.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
Mystics are both loyal followers and uncomfortable critics – which, it seems to me, is exactly what Christian churches need today.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
What we are called to be faithful to is not the words themselves, but the way those words are supposed to form or reform our lives.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
Jesus never really called himself the Son of God or claimed divinity.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
faith is a falling in love without being sure of what one loves.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
Gandhi opposed, but he also embraced.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
We express our beliefs in words in order to express our beliefs in actions.